Inbound email slow & erratic

[karina]

Usually receive inbound email at the speed of light but recently
incoming email taking long time to arrive; 1 min up to one hour!
In addition, sometimes rather than appealing in my inbox, I've found
new emails in "All Mail," Sent, " "Spam" and in "Trash."

I cleared my Internet history but as far as I can tell, that didn't
have any effect on speed.
I suspect that since I've added my employer's email address to my POP
3 account, it may have impacted the speed but only for the past few
days, not when I first added it.

If it helps you diagnose problem, I utilize Internet Explorer, Vista
operating system.and Comcast Hi speed connection.

Thank you.

[Andy]

> Usually receive inbound email at the speed of light but recently
> incoming email taking long time to arrive; 1 min up to one hour!

I'm not saying this is it, but there often are times when things don't
flow smoothly and quickly through the Internet. You can examine the
full email headers and usually tell where and when your email was held
up. Probably it is on some server before it reaches Google.

> In addition, sometimes rather than appealing in my inbox, I've found
> new emails in "All Mail," Sent, " "Spam" and in "Trash."

Remember that emails can be in multiple labels at once.

All received emails should be in "All Mail" (unless they go to Spam or
Trash). They don't need to be moved to All Mail; they are already
there.

If an incoming email is part of a thread that you had also sent an
email to (i.e., if someone replies to your email), then it will also
appear in your "Sent" label, because of your message that is part of
that conversation.

If incoming emails are going to Spam, then there was something in the
email that made it look like spam. Click the Not Spam button to train
your spam filter to not put it there.

If incoming emails appear in Trash, you probably have a Filter that
put it there.

There can be many reasons for incoming emails to not go to the Inbox,
but still be in All Mail. One is by a Filter. Another is if you use
POP to download your emails to a computer or phone. Check your
settings to see if that is how you have things set up.

Regards,
Andy

[karina]

Thanks Andy

[Sarah Hill]

Hi Karina,
Gmail & pop3...

If you have gmail fetching mail from other accounts (especially 3rd party & pop3accounts), or you're downloading your e-mail with pop to a mail client or app on your pc or other device(s) then mail may not arrive "instantly". Sometimes it will; but at times you'll find there's a delay.
Adding your employers account may have had an effect.
The frequency with which gmail checks3rd party & pop3 mail depends on a number of things, like the e-mail volume & frequncy of new mail appearing, when it last checked - Gmail checks POP3 accounts about every hour, unless it fetched some mail during the last check: if some mail was found, the next check times will be progressively shorter, as long as any check returns some mail. If it finds no mail the intervals increase.
You can now easily manually ask gmail to check for new mail: go to your Settings -> Labs and enable the Refresh POP accounts feature.
This will allow you to force a POP3 check by simply clicking Refresh in your Inbox page, without need to go to Settings -> Accounts and Import.
Labs to make Gmail check pop:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-in-labs-refresh-pop-accounts.html.

There's quite a lot in Gmail help & the Gmail help forums on pop3, and mail checking interval.
Link to seach results in Help:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/search.py?ctx=en%3Asearchbox&query=pop+frequency+checking+mail

Firefox & chrome greasemonkey script to check pop:
http://www.danielslaughter.com/projects/gmail-pop3-checker-for-greasemonkey/

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[karina]

Sarah you're a gem! Thank you.

On Feb 12, 8:51 pm, Sarah Hill <mailh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Karina,
> Gmail & pop3...
>
> If you have gmail fetching mail from other accounts (especially 3rd party &
> pop3accounts), or you're downloading your e-mail with pop to a mail client
> or app on your pc or other device(s) then mail may not arrive "instantly".
> Sometimes it will; but at times you'll find there's a delay.
> Adding your employers account may have had an effect.
> The frequency with which gmail checks3rd party & pop3 mail depends on a
> number of things, like the e-mail volume & frequncy of new mail appearing,
> when it last checked - Gmail checks POP3 accounts about every hour,

> *unless*it fetched some mail during the last check: if some mail was

> found, the next
> check times will be progressively shorter, as long as any check returns some
> mail. If it finds no mail the intervals increase.
> You can now easily manually ask gmail to check for new mail: go to your

> Settings -> Labs and enable the *Refresh POP accounts* feature.
> This will allow you to force a POP3 check by simply clicking *Refresh* in

> your Inbox page, without need to go to Settings -> Accounts and Import.

> *Labs to make Gmail check pop:*http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-in-labs-refresh-pop-account....

>
> There's quite a lot in Gmail help & the Gmail help forums on pop3, and mail

> checking interval.*
> Link to seach results in Help:*http://mail.google.com/support/bin/search.py?ctx=en%3Asearchbox&query...
>
> *Firefox & chrome greasemonkey script to check pop:*http://www.danielslaughter.com/projects/gmail-pop3-checker-for-grease...

>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, karina <karina4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Usually receive inbound email at the speed of light but recently
> > incoming email taking long time to arrive; 1 min up to one hour!
> > In addition, sometimes rather than appealing in my inbox, I've found
> > new emails in "All Mail," Sent, " "Spam" and in "Trash."
>
> > I cleared my Internet history but as far as I can tell, that didn't
> > have any effect on speed.
> > I suspect that since I've added  my employer's email address to my POP
> > 3 account, it may have impacted the speed but only for the past few
> > days, not when I first added it.
>
> > If it helps you diagnose problem, I utilize Internet Explorer, Vista
> > operating system.and Comcast Hi speed connection.
>
> > Thank you.
>
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[Sarah Hill]

You're welcome!